A crucial element in the season’s work is the remote sensing process. The aim is to have capability for acquiring, processing, analysing and interpreting good data, with the result of allowing diver based searches of these targets the following […]

Diving to identify magnetic anomalies started today. All the planning, survey, analysis and preparation now culminates in a few dives over the coming days when we hope to see something that nature does not produce – a straight line! […]

The wind has definitely picked up and we are off the water. This does not mean work has not continued. The bad weather has given us a chance to look at gathered data and do a gap analysis. Refocussed […]

In 1852 the three survivors from the Dutch sailing ship Vice Admiraal Rijk spent 57 days marooned on Christmas Island. They drifted ashore at the North West Pt on a makeshift raft after their vessel ran headlong into the […]

Today we were kept to shore with torrential rain pouring on the island. Not that rain should in itself stop maritime archaeology but as we are using electronics and the water integrity of the vessel’s cabin is not perfect, […]

The Wreck Check team are looking for a second shipwreck on the south-west coast of Christmas Island. They were made aware of the wreck’s circumstances by Thomas Creemers. The Dutch bark Vice Admiraal Rijk was on a voyage from […]

What an amazing run of good weather we have had. This is not too much of a shock since we deliberately came to the island during the best season for calm seas, namely cyclone season. Touch wood we shall […]

Yesterday 25 February – we spent the day on the water surveying with Azmi Yon, Renata de’Jong and Rob Muller from Parks Australia. The weather was excellent and we managed to get near the coastline on some very weather […]

Greeted with a beautiful sunrise over flat calm water and a full moon still shining bright, fieldwork commenced. Today equipment was set-up and tested while other team members worked on translating a Dutch account of the loss of the […]